Gwladys Nocera (born 22 May 1975) is a French professional

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er. She currently resides in

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, France.

Amateur career

Nocera was born in

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. She had a successful amateur career. She finished runner up at the 1998

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, was a member of the victorious European championship French team in 1999 and the youngest ever winning captain in the 2000

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(World Amateur Golf Team Championships). She was a playing member of the 2002 French

team. She was runner up at the 2002 French Amateur Championship, 2002 French International Champion and 2002 German International champion. She holds a degree in international business from

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Professional career

Nocera turned professional at the relatively late age of twenty-seven and finished ninth at the 2002

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to win a place on the tour for the following season. After a modest start she improved dramatically in 2005, when she finished fourth on the Order of Merit and made her

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debut where she beat

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in her singles match. In 2006 her career took another upward turn. She started the year representing

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at the

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with

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. She scored her first three Ladies European Tour tournament victories at the Ladies Swiss Open, the BMW Ladies Italian Open and the Catalonia Ladies Masters. She also played in her first women's major tournament, the

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. She finished second on the New Star Money list being beaten only by

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the holder of the record number of money list wins and was voted Players’ Player of the Year by her fellow

professionals. On 20 January 2008,

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and

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of Team Philippines won the 4th

in Sun City,

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, with 4

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s in the last 4 holes. The duo had a final round of 7-under-par 65 in the best ball, for a 54-hole aggregate of 18-under-par 198.

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's Ji-Yai Shin and Eun Hee Ji were second on 200 after a final round 67, while

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(

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and Yun Jye Wei) and

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(Shinobu Moromizato and Miki Saiki) tied for third on 203.

's Gwladys Nocera and Virginie Lagoutte-Clement, were fifth on 205 following 67. In 2009, Nocera earned her LPGA Tour card at LPGA Q-School and at the age of 34 will be a rookie and full-time LPGA Tour member in the 2010 season.

LET 72-hole scoring record

Nocera won the 2008 Göteborg Masters by an 11 stroke margin after scoring 259 (−29) following rounds of 66-62-65-66, the best 72-hole score in the LET's 40-year history. The bogey-free round of 62 is only one stroke off the LET single round scoring record of 61 (−11). Source:

Amateur wins (2)

* 2002 (2)

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, German International Championship

Professional wins (15)

Ladies European Tour (14)

ALPG Tour (1)

Ladies European Tour career summary

Team appearances

Amateur *

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(representing France):

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

(winners),

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

(representing France):

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

(non-playing captain, winners),

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

Professional *

(representing Europe):

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...

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(representing France): 2006, 2007, 2008 * The Queens (representing Europe): 2015, 2017 (captain)

Solheim Cup record

Notes and references

External links

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